I purchased a Acer Aspire 5560g yesterday second hand , lappy worked great. Was updating all the drivers one of which was the BIOS. The install went through and then upon reboot the machine Black Screened. No HDD activity no display. Just a solid Blue light on front bezel fan running. Connected to external monitor and still nothing. From all Ive read it sounds like the BIOS installed hosed. Can someone PLEASE give me a good step by step on how to reflash the BIOS on this machine using a USB drive? I have also reset the cmos battery and reseated the ram.
Yeah, probably right. First, download the 115 file, unzip it and copy all the files you see in the DOS subdirectory to a blank USB stick. Insert the USB stick with the power off. Press and hold the Fn + Esc keys, then press the power button but don't let go of the Fn + Esc keys till after you see the USB stick activity light working. Then hope for the best. Report back with results.
Thanks so much for your help , sadly still nothing. I also tried making a bootable dvd and cd with the bios update package emulating floppy drive and that was a no go aws well. Are there any other keys I can try holding down or is Fn + Esc absolute to trigger the reflash? Thanks again for your help.
OK then, try this next. Copy the JE50115.bin file on the stick to JE50115.fd . So now there should be two files on the stick JE50115.bin and JE50115.fd
The do the Fn + Esc and power on routine again. Hope again too. Report back.
I assume the screen is totally black when powering on --- no Acer logo screen --- no nothing. Though you can't see a screen, do you think the machine is booting to Windows OK? Meaning, do you hear the Windows welcome melody or any other non-visual signs of a successful boot?
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